House of horrors: Hospital won’t let cops grill owner’s son

“We have kept him (Partha) under observation. His condition has improved a lot today. He appeared to be very normal. He has taken the prescribed medicine and ate properly,” Ganesh Prasad, superintendent of Pavlov Mental Hospital where Partha is undergoing treatment, said.

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DC, South, Murlidhar Sharma, admitted that the doctors at the hospital did not let them interrogate Partha and said the police are now considering moving him to another mental hospital.

“Every time we need to interrogate Partha, we would need the court’s order. And so for our convenience, we would shift him to the Institute of Psychiatry (in Bhawanipur) where we can get a blanket clearance to interrogate him,” Sharma said.

Senior Kolkata Police officials, along with forensic experts, Monday visited the house and seized several diaries and paper notes, purportedly written by Debjani De, from the second floor where the charred body of house-owner Arabinda and the three skeletons (including that of Debjani) were found last Wednesday.

“Many things have been recovered from the house. We are analysing the content. They may help us in our investigation,” Sharma said.

Earlier, the police had seized eight laptops, desktop, many diaries, paper notes and other documents from the house. Sharma indicated that the diaries suggest Arabinda and his two children were not in talking terms.

”For a long time, they used to communicate through messages on chits of paper,” he said.

All three, according to the police, used to keep diaries but only Debjani was in the habit of mentioning dates. “These show that Debjani had been writing until December last year which matches with Partha’s statement that Debjani died in December 2014,” said another senior official.

Sharma reiterated about the “possibility that Arabinda did not know about his daughter’s death until very recently. “It could also be that he learned about Debjani’s death and decided to end his life but we have nothing to corroborate it,” the officer said.